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Ballachulish Beathan beautiful BEN CRUACHAN beneath Bens billow Blaven bless blood blue Bonnie Strathnaver braes brave breezy Brendan bright broad Atlantic sea Cameron Celt Celtic clan cloud Columba cone copsy crag crown Cruachan dark Diarmid Eastward Edendarach Edited Etive fair flood glen Glencoe grace granite grassy green grim Haco heart Highland hills holy Hoy Hath huge Huna Iona Iona's island isles Joseph Skipsey King's House kings KINLOCH Kirkwall land light Loch Awe Loch Baa Loch Duich Loch ERICHT Loch Etive lonely Lord MAESHOW mighty miles mist Moidart moor mountain Mull neath night Norsemen o'er oaks of Derry Oban old grey old rock-dwelling Orkney peace peak Phelim praise prayerful pride proud roar rock round rude sail Scotland shore Skye soft song soul spake stand stones storm stout Strathnaver sweep swelling TAYNUILT thee thence thine thou hast torrent tourist Unst wave rides free wild wind wise wonder
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Page 94 - ... loveliest ever Look'd so lovely as this dead. Stranger, thou hast heard my story, Thank thee for thy patient ear ; We are pleased to stir the sleeping Memory of old greatness here. I have used no gloss, no varnish, To make fair things fairer look ; As the record stands, I give it, In the old monks